censōrĭus, a, um, adj. [censor],
I of or pertaining to the censor , censorial : tabulae, the lists of the censor , Cic. Agr. 1, 2, 4: lex, a contract for leasing buildings , id. Verr. 2, 1, 55, § 143; public revenues , id. Prov. Cons. 5, 12; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 12, § 35 (the same: locatio, id. Verr. 2, 3, 6, § 12); sometimes, also, the order , decisions of the censor (concerning the divisions of the people, taxes, public buildings, etc.), id. Rab. Perd. 5, 15; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16: edictum (de rhetoribus Latinis), Suet. Rhet. 1: severitas, Cic. Clu. 46, 129; cf. id. Pis. 5, 10: animadversio atque auctoritas, id. Clu. 42, 117 and 119; cf. animadversio, id. ib. 46, 129 fin. : nota, Liv. 24, 18, 9; Quint. 5, 11, 13; 5, 13, 32 (cf. Cic. Clu. 46, 129: censoriae severitatis nota): opus, a fault or crime which was followed by the punishment of the censor , Cic. de Or. 2, 90, 367; Suet. Caes. 41; Gell. 4, 12, 1; 14, 7, 8; for which also, probrum, Plin. 18, 3, 3, § 10; but censorium opus, the punishment inflicted by the censor, Col. 12, praef. fin. : homo, any one who had been censor , Cic. de Or. 2, 90, 367.—Hence, Cato Censorius, Quint. 12, 1, 35.—
II Trop., rigid , severe : gravitas, Cic. Cael. 15, 35: virgula, Quint. 1, 4, 3: lima, Mart. 5, 80, 12.